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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1901)
Ji,L?ltt ( Vv'ljji K l! m& rj T f' GIANT OF INDUSTRY. SENATOR CLARK, THE WORLD'S RIOHEST SU9INESS MAN. Hta Chain of rropertlea, from Main, to California, Include n Quarry, MtnM, Kaaohf. Street Rr.ltwajr and Other ' hinge (Special Letter.) By the purchaso of a granlto quarry In Maine, Senator W. A. Clark of Montana, king ot all copper kings, manufacturer, banker, publishor, sugar refiner, rubber grower, lumber opera tor, railroad builder, conl miner and many, many times a millionaire, says the Plttaburg Dlspntch, haa completed a chain ot IndtiRtricB from Maine to California, and from the Gulf ot Mex ico to the Canadian border. , tip In North Jay, Maine, he lias bought and cqulppod a quarry with 800,000 tons of beautiful white granite In sight, ho nay. Away off across tho continent In southern California, 3,000 miles away, ho ovnH a mons'.cr range of countless acres devoted to beet sugar raising. On the Gulf ot Mex ico ho owns another big range of 130, 000 acres devoted to the growth ot 'rubber trees and coffee. Thousands of miles north, In tho state ot Montana, ho owns mlnrs, bunks, Btrcct railways, .Wal esiato, lumber tnlllH und lots ot other things, boaldcs bc'ug a United State senator. Hatwccn them four points Senator Clink Is the active head of various induttrlss or h's own cre ating. Il Neer Failed. No record of Industrial falluro lian ever bsen entered against this man. Everything he had taken hold ot has lOMUlted In great and undivided divi dends, for Senntor Clnrk Is not a 'hcud or part of a combine or corpora tion. Ho hlnuclf Is tho head, the heart, the soul, tho creator, tho direc tor and general superintendent. Ha Is a master ot detul , u nystcmuttzcr, null therein, ho Bays, lies tho secret of his curcessful business career. Men w)io know both Buy W. A. Clark Js heud and shoulder abovo J. Plor pont Morguu us a business man. Clnrk creates Industries; Morgan formulates ropibtncs to absorb created Industries. Clnrk alone ronn his mighty busi ness; Morgan dpoan't. No mind but tho senator's from Montnna Is recog nized In his affairs. No board of dl jeefors pass upon his idenf.. He Is the wholo thing. It isn't so with Morgan. Everything ho is connected with has Its board of dlrcctois, each ot whom conceives Ideas and nui'oes them as tenderly av Morgan. The purpeso of Claik in purchasing SENATOR WILLIAM. A. CLARK, tho quarry was to supply granite for his Now York mansion. Every piece ot Xianlto Is cut to fit a c;rtnln plnco In tho growing palace in New York. Tho quarrymen havo tho architect's plans to go by and each pleco ot granite H numbered to correspond with tho num ber In the spsclflcatiou". Tho quarry yloMB a beautiful white granlto ot a ktnd unlike any other In tin world. Ono hundred skilled qunrrymon with compretscd nlr drills cntvo -out huge hllcca ot this puro granite, each sltco being destined to fit n splfled niche In tho New York mansion, Sovonty flvo skilled stone cuttcn rjcolvo tho xinnlto nt Portland and chip the sllcos Into dressed conditio!. Then tho dVcs&cd slices uro wrapped In bagging, ivarntshcd with slnts uild shipped by train or boat to Now York, Senator Clark waited nearly two years for a certain company to furnish tho granite und then brushed them aside, bought quarry adjoining the procrastinating company's, wcrks uud equipped It him sett. Cam Naught fur Truiu. It Is" said that tho qmtry owners formed a comblno for tho purpose of lalslng tho price ot granite and marked Senator Clark as tho "angul" who wpuld pay the freight. But the mil lionaire frqm tho northwest Htood out and nearly caused a panic among tho granite "workers" by buying a quarry of hit own. The Hlehett lluslnni Man, Senator Clark is 63 years old, me dium height, slender and wiry. His most striking featuro is found in tho eyes. Clear, steady, piercing, they reach one's thoughts before they are put In words. Eyes that seem like , tUshea of burnished steel, at first, thoy change to gray-blue at near range. Thoy are good eyes nothing sinister or undorhauded lurk In their depths. iyith eyes like theno a roan can see Clearly bis own plans und perceive more clearly, points In an, opponent's campaign, Ten years bonco it Is ad mitted on all aides that Senator Clark wU bo tho richest man In tho world. He keeps no costly atablo nor steam yacht; he doesn't risk his great for tune In stock gambling, Even today he. Is known to be the ilcliost business man In Amei!ca. Ills income is about 18,000,000 a year, and 13 growing apaco. His wealth Is unknown to all men ex ropt hlmsolf. It has been estimated at $50,000,000, and from that tsuro up to $150,000,000. Every dollar his grunt fortune has been actually earwul. Not n penny ot It has bcon won . In stock speculation. fteuatnr Clark' VroperllMb Senator Clark owns several mining properties and a smelter at Butte. He owns tho biggest banking Institution in tho whole northwest. Ho owns 26 miles of street railway. He owns' a big dally newspaper plant Ho owns 'thou sands of dollars' worth ot real estate. He owns big business blocks. He owns the opera house. In other parts of Montana he owns flvo nowspapers, tim ber tracts and lumber mills, coal mine's and' ranches. Ho owns and operates mines In Idaho, Nevada and Colorado. HeToViiVihe 'franchise and Is building a railroad from Utah to southern Cali fornia. Ho owns a controlling inter est in n dully paper In Salt Lake City. In Arizona ho owns the rich United Verde copper mines and a ranch Of 300,000 acres In California devoted to beet sugar raising, tho flwt one ot any consequence started in this country, He owns and operates n largo coal mine In Mexico. On the Gulf of Mexico, on tho Mexican side, he owim a vast tract of fertile land which Is to bo utilized In growing rubber and coffee. This is ono of Senntor Clark's latest projects. Tho work of sotting out rubber trees in now being pushed nhend and will not be finished until 1,000,000 trees nro planted. Whon live or bIx years old these trees will each yield ono dollar's worth of raw material. One of the largest of Snnutor Clark's Industries la tho Waelark Copper Wlro Company ot New Jersey. This plant treats tho cop per bricks from the senator's smelters und turns them into colls of high priced wire ready for the hardware market. IN HIS WESTERN DAYS. An Anecdote That Mliow the Observing Character of 1'rri.ldei.t Kooaevelt. Much of President Roosovolt's per sonality is shown In tho following story by n chanco ucqunintunco on u train. The first time, Bays tho nar rator, that I over saw him was back in the early 'SO's. I met him on a sleeping car coming cast from Wyom ing, whero he hail been visiting his rnnch on the edge of the bad lands. At. that time ho was unknown to the public except as the autlwr ot a few maguzino articles on western life, but luckily I hnd read them and they formed a brldgo for conversation. I found him a burly young man with heavy brown heard, which ho had al lowed to grow during his trip, and with manners that were nervous und abrupt, but nevertheless very engag ing. Ho was just recovering from an attack ot snow blindness ana wore largo bluo glasses, so he was pretty well disguised. There were eight or ten passengers on tho car, represent ing tho usual wide variety of typo to bo found on tho frontier and I remem ber that Roosevelt easily took the lead In conversation. Ills versatility and tho extent of htu Information were sur prising, and there wuh n vein of quaint humor that ran through his talk and lent a certnln sparkle to almoBt every thing be said. Somebody remarked, for Instance, thnt ho had recently vis ited a new mining camp in the Block Hills and had to pay CO cents for a drink of' execrable whisky. "You can always determine n camp's ago and stage ot development by the price charged" for drinks," aald Roose velt chuckling. "Four-bit whisky means recent occupation, unsettled conditions and tho presence ot one half barrel, which somo fellow has brought over the trnll on a burro. Two-bit whisky Indicates thut tho regulation boom Is on, that tendcrfcet aro plenty and that regular communication with the outsldo world has been established. Tho next drop to three for n half Is not u sign ot a slump, but merely shows that tho first excitement has passed and tho town is getting down to what they call a 'business basis.' Fifteen-vent drinks mean that the business hauls is reached, courts havo been established, a school-house iff Do ing built, claim jumping has become bud form, plug huts are tolerated and furo bunks havo moved upstairs. Any further decline, however," added Mr. Roosevelt, "la a danger iilgnal. Two-for-a-quarter whlHky Is a sure sign of deterioration, and 5-eent boer means that u stumpeda has get In for the noxt diggings. That's the way to read tho alcoholic thermometer ot tho woolly WeHt." Literature In (leorgla, Colonel Scotter, the celebrated au thor, desires to swap the manuscript ot a new novel for a young mule fa miliar with plowing. The Authors' club gave a hot dinner last Wednes day, at which, In a literary dispute, the recording secretary was struck on the head and left car with Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. There were more words than blows, however. The odltor's mother-in-law published anon ymously a book ehe hud written, A copy was sent to tho editor and ho criticised it severely. After the criti cism appeared a friend whispered the name ot the author. The editor then packed his valise nnd loft for parts unknown. We proposo writing a his torical novol juat as soon aa wo can hire a reliable young man to manufac ture history for it. Atlanta Constitu tion, Ilellered la the Theory. She: "They say that persons of op posite qualities make the happiest marriages." He: 'That's why I'm looking for a girl with money." Lon don Tit-Bits. I Strcavge I Meaisolexim (Special Lcttor.) In civilization as well as In savagery man has Indulged weird fanclotr in his ornamentations of tho sepulchre. Even In tho most barbarous climes and times much thought was given to em bellishments of tho graves of beloved dead. Many of tho winders of the world hayc been sarcophagi. The pyramids are but repositories for tho bones of Egyptian royalty; the catacombs vast sleeping cars for tho RomanB' and early Christians' last dreamless slumber. Throughout the world, by the sldo of his urches of tri umph, man has erected mausoleums and tombs, Less stress Is today placed upon the importance ot tho dead body; more upon tho living soul. A fow people even have becomo sufficiently emanci pated 'to forego tho pitiful mite ot worldly Immortality crystallized in a fragment of marble, and have had their bodies consumed In the purifying fire, leaving ho damp or frozen mound for their successors to hover near, add ing to tho great sense ot loss the hor ror of disintegration. But thero still are erected countless sarcophagi, at enormous cost and in flnlto pains, to mcmotallze a life and a name. Love still stands weeping at tho brink of a gnive and Invents methods of calling tho world's atten tion to its own peculiar sorrow. A Unique Aepnlrlire. In the heart of Vermont, in tho shad ow ot the snow-clud or moss-mantled Green inountulns, stands a unique sepulchre erected by devoted Wealth, at the cost of many thousands of dol lars, called tho Laurel Glen maiibo leum. , Throughout that part ot New Eng land known as the marble state, the name of Cuttlngsvllle stands only tor this mausoleum; the rude hamlet has but one pride, one distinction, It holds n tomb! Is this symbolic of a dying state, whose population Is deserting its hills und dules to help colonize the whole country? An opulent New Yorker had Bought solitude In this picturesque village for several summers, nnd had built for his use a splendid mansion. But his last loved one was taken away by death, and the only consolation re maining was to leave his history In mnrblo. And so Hon. John P. Bow man erected a mngnlllcont memorial to his family, which is now visited by tourists from all parts ot tho country. A wholo year's time and tho labor ot 125 men were employed upon this Greek temple, reared amid the green shrubbery in this lovely valley among tho mountains which encompass Ver mont Kreeteil at llreut Colt. In this great tomb wore used 750 tons of granlto, CO tons of marblo and 120,000 bricks. Its dimensions are 18 by 25 feet, and It Is 20 feet high. Each TtancB' Submarine lloat. The French now have, it lu stated, 37 submarine boats ot two classes namely, those thut are fitted for pro pulsion exclusively by Jectrlclty nnd those which go by steam ordinarily when on the surface of tho water and by electricity only when submerged. By 1905, according to tho official pro gramme, France will have altogether 58 submarine vessels. The English, not bollevlng much in underwater naviga tion, arc building but few submarines for experiment. Their energies are given chiefly to devices for destroying t eflLBif Mtiil S? ksBafl'' Ay- -i.yalt 'yr v r IitB yfllKt 'TTomL 19Bj9m r-. a! mm!fr.xii, 5 f- T7Trf5!"Ti ,1 l " JOHN P. BOWMAN'S TOMB. VERMONT VILLAGE HAS A MOST REMARKABLE TOMB block of granite weighs from 3 to C tons. The extorlor decorations nro Greek foliage with laurel frlczo. With in the portal la closed by a granite door of one marble Blab weighing G,500 pounds, But the conspicuous and growsome featuro of this mausoleum is the llfo slzcd statue of Mr. Bowman himself, standing hat In hand, with ono foot upon tho stop, about to onter tho tombl Ho holds a wreath of marble immortelles, and a hugo key with which to unlock the chamber of death. Within, upon pedestals, nro busts of himself, his wife, his beautiful daughter, and, In tho center, his baby, Its plump limbs sinking Into n cushion, its chubby nrms extended to its moth er, cold and rigid in unresponsive marble. These were wrought in Ituly from finest purlan marble (aa was his own figure) and are of Immense value. Two long mlrror3 give the illusion of vast corridors filled with buBts und statues of dazzling whiteness. By this optical illusion 30 hulls may be seen. Rich sculptures, bionze trac eries and ornament:! fill the sepulchre. A nightly illumination is produced by six bronze candelabra, bearing' pyr amids of wax candles, which shed n weird, ghostly light nnd give a sol emn, cathedral atmosphere to this pal ace of death. Upon a rolling terrace, conspicuous from all directions, stands ithls mau soleum, with its owner ever entering Its threshold. Raro exotics adorn the lawn in summer and a conservatory is kept up solely for the decotntlon of the tomb In winter. Tho cost of this sarcophagus Is sup posed to bo enormous, but no records can be discovered. Tho founder left $50,000 for the sole purpose of having the grounds and the tomb cued for perpetually. Truster (lunnl It. Six trustees guard this legacy nnd ono of their number enjoys the castle onco occupied by the Bowman fam ily. It faces tho mortuary, and In It are the elegant furnishings Just as they were usod by the erratic owner. Oriental colors, woodwork in pale blues, reds and blacks, statues and relics brought from sunny Italy to the region of deep snow, speak ot a luxury entlroty foreign to austere and pro vincial Vermont. Tho tomb was completed befjro the death of the founder. What melan choly satisfaction he experienced In viewing his own marble image for ever ascending the steps that led to tho cold clay and colder marblo pre sentments ot his wife and children can only bo surmised. He lias roado the village nestled in the mountains un der the shadow ot KUIIngton a point for curiosity seekers, and the llfo and death story ot his own obscure fam ily well-nigh imperishable. Perhaps to havo done this seemed to him worthy of having lived. submarines. One of these devices is an arrangement fur blowing up an ap proaching submarine by means of a di rigible torpedo, A young English elec trician, Cecil Varicus, has perfected, it is said, an apparatus by which ho can stocr a Whitehead or other torpedo by means ot wireless telegraphy. Till now dirigible torpedoes have been steered by means of a gyroscope. But its ac tion has been uncertain beyond a short distance. Mr. Varices proposes to con trol the rudder ot tho torpedo by means ot electrical Impulses that act upon It j from a great distance. OUTLAWS OF TUEKEY. INTO WHOSE HANDS AN AMERICAN WOMAN FELL I'revlou Experience of MIm Ktlen M. Stone The Wildest Region of Knrope Character of the Roving; Ilrlgand Woman' Honor Held la Light Esteem. (Special Letter.) Tho abduction of Miss Ellen M. Stone, the American, missionary, by Turkish brigands, directed the atten tion of tho world upon this unfortunate woman and her cruel nnd daring cap tors. Miss Stone is a Boston womnn, who for yeatb has been in the employ ot tho American Women's Board ot Missionaries and whoso devotion to her woik Is as Intense, .us was that ot the early Christians, 'Frequently fthA has been halted by brigands and test ed ns to her capacity to furnish plun der. In ono Instance she explained tho naturo of her work and the fact that she had but little available money, and was allowed to continue her Journey und work. In nnothor cas3, while sho was asleep In a small structure, she was Aroused In the Night and became conscious that hunds wero passed over her features, but shu was not otherwise d'sturbed, and lu the morning sho found abundant evidence thnt brigands had been In tho vicinity during the night. Her latest and most serious adventure occuned Scptembor 3, when she was halted bitween Ban nko and Ojoumanln by forty brigands. She was accompanied by eighteen other missionaries, all of whom wero relieved ot their vuluabWn and after ward released. iMlss Stono was car iled Into the mountains. There she is allowed grrat liberty and Is not III treated, but shameful treatment nnd, perhaps, death are In store for her if the ransom of $110,000 demanded by the leader of tho brigands is' not forth coming. The mission board which Miss Stone iepicsents will, It Is said, pay the ransom, but some action will un doubtedly be taken by tho state depart ment to secure, rjp.iratlon from the Turkish government. A Wild Region. The country In which Mlu Slono was captured Is the name as tho Thcssnly ot the Scriptures, the Thraco of Gre cian history whero Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great led their armies and where Socrate i campaigned bare-footed as a common soldier. It is wilder now than then. All tho rest ot Europe contains nothing an bar barous. Bands ot roving, pillaging MISS ELLEN M. STONE. Turks or Bulgarian outlaws Infest the whole region. Woman's honor Is held in light esteem. Up to within a very few years the moBt deplorable out rages wero committed openly nnd are now even dono secretly. While tho corps of Junl?f.aric3 ex isted every fifth mulo child was forced into tho Turk'sh military service and young girls were carried off by thou sands to fill the harems of their con querors or otherwise minister to their pleasure. The haughty bearing nnd tyranny of the troops which marched to and fro In tho country to cowed tho Christian population that they became timid serfs. Many escaped death by embracing Islam and it was not un common for parents voluntarily to send their diugh'orn to tho harems o! the Begs, or noblemen, so that they themselves Alight (iuln Frutnttloii. Cruel as tho bandlta' nro to foreign ers, they have u hold on the affections of the population, who shelter and pro tect them. A curious stoto of affairs has resulted from this anarchy. When the peasantry are maltreated by tho Turkish Begs and other" offldnls they appeal to tho brigands, Halduts, Klrd jails or by whattver numa they are known, for protection or revenge. In ono place a young Turkish noble roan had been guilty of tho greatest cruelty and execests, committing out rages on the wives nnd daughters ot the peaeantry, even capturing and sell ing children. He entered a village on ono occasion on horseback, surrounded by hlK retinue all decked in silk and gold. He had not gone far when a band of Halduts, led by a well-known chief, sprang from hiding places, pulled the Beg from his horse, broke his nrms and legs and struck off his bead. This bloody trophy they put on tho end of a spear and carried it In triumph at the head of the band as they marched through the village. lllrd Take Their Own Plctaree. Birds are made to take their own pictures by the Ingenious apparatus ot O. G. Plko, an English photographer. A bait of fat Is placed on an electrical wire, which Is ao connected with a camera that, when the bait Is removed, the camera shutter is released, giving an instantaneous exposure of the sen sitive plate FAMOUS GAMBLING PLACES. Heilcan Ktabtlt:neat That Rival That of Monte Carta. Possibly fow are aware that In the City of Mexico thero exists an estab lishment which for splendor and lux uriousness runs Monto Carlo very close. Somo years ogo the Mexican govern ment resolved to abolish garribllng, which Is, by the way, as much part and parcel of the Mexican's nature as of tho heathen Chinee. Tho measure proved Intensely unpopular, being vig orously opposed not only by tho pro fessional sporting element, but by many ot the most Influential and wealthy subjects of tho republic and fi nally the government "climbed down." Determined, however, not to be alto gether outdone, the authorities con celycd tho idea of Imposing a heavy tax upon gambling, and n law was passed requiring every gambling resort to pay tho enormous daily license of $1,250. On the day this measuro became law the gambling establishments through out the country closed their doors, all save one. Senor Martel presented himself ut the tax gatherer's office with the amount of the license in his hand, nnd doraunded tho privllego ot keeping open his house. The license was granted by the dumfounded offi cials, nnd long beforo nightfall It was noised all over tho city that Martel's establishment on tho Calle do Gnntn was continuing business as usual. That night tho pluco was literally thronged by tho wealthiest "sports" In the city, and Senor Martel's profits ran into the four figures. Next day the other houses took their licenses, hut Martel's bold venture made his establishment far and away the most popular among tho gambling fraternity. His successes continued, and he opened othqr establishments for each of which he pays tho enor mous tax of something like $450,000 a year. When It became evident to the au thorities that Martel had "come to stay," nnd taking into consideration the immense revenues thoy wero reap ing from his enterprise, a government official was appointed to preside over each ot his business places, this fact greatly enhancing Martel's prestige. Tho average dally expenses of tho great "financier's" establishments amount to the incredible sum of $40, 000. That in the Calle do Gantc is sumptuously furnished, and those guests who can afford tho luxury ot gambling here enjoy tho choicest ci gars and wines that money can pur chase. Felipe Martel is a devout church man, and recently built a church which cost him over $50,000 in the su burban village of San Angel, whero. he lives. His residence, is needless to say, a roost palatial structure, and (strange trade mark of the gamester's profession) contains 40 windows, rep resenting tho number of cards in the Mexican pack. AN ELEOTRIOAL WONDER. Ingenloua Contrltaoce Constructed In America for the Jnpnnese. A wonderful electrical contrvunce. an instrument used in tho transmis sion of messages by means ot wireless telegraphy, has recently been built by a Philadelphia firm for the Japanese government. Tho instrument is tho largest coll ever constructed for trans mitting wireless messages nnd one which also gives tho largest apurk of any coll heretofore built. This coll will easily give a miniature streak of lightning 45 inches In length, being three Inches longer than that ot tho famous Spottlswood coll built soinu years ngo in England. It h now In use in flashing cableless messages be tween the Korean peninsula nnd Ja pan. The object of the Induction coll is to obtain the little flash of lightning, for it is this spark bursting .through the nlr that sends forth the ctherlc waves for hundreds of m!lc3. In the Queen coll when tho terminals nro separated a distance of 42 Inches a forked streak of liquid lightning bursts through tho nlr with a cracking noise just aa real lightning does. Though the machine made lightning does not, of course, producn as great a crash, yet tho little bolt would cause death If ono were to get In its wny Just as certainly as would any bolt that over camo out of nature's electricity works, the clouds. It requires nearly one-horco power of electrical energy to operate thiH giant coil. Tho whole apparatus Is mounted on casters nnd weighs, com plete, about 2,000 pounds. There was used in its construction approximate ly 1,320,000 feet of copper wire. With a piopcr receiving apparatus a distance of 500 miles should bo bridged without difficulty by the wireless messages. Valne ot South African Horse. One ot tho great lessons of the J3ocr war was to show tho valuo or" the South African horse. .If the Boers had not been so excellently mounted as they were, on horses bred In the Trans vaal, Orange Free 8tato and Cape Col ony, tho war would have worn a dif ferent aspect.. The South African horse can llvo on much less food than an EnglUh horse; he docs not suffer from tho climate; he dots not tumble Into holes; ho is sounder, Is more sen-, Bible and learns better to stand alone without being tied up. French Revolutionary Calendar. The year of tho French revolution ary calendar began September 22, 1702. It has twelve months ot thirty days each and five days at the end, Tho' roonttiB wero divided Into threo equal' decades. There was a four-year period railed a "Franclade," with a six days' feaBt at the end. A V V ftJlra4'itiVaf"'''N. "T" "n VHtrw ?" 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